Outputs (99)

Public and mental health professionals’ perspectives on social media and suicide exposure (2025)
Journal Article
Bell, J., & Westoby, C. (2025). Public and mental health professionals’ perspectives on social media and suicide exposure. BMC public health, 25(1), Article 1380. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22587-6

Background: The rapid evolution of social media in recent years has increased public exposure to suicide. While research has highlighted concerns about the role of social media in facilitating harmful discourse and imitative suicidal behaviour, there... Read More about Public and mental health professionals’ perspectives on social media and suicide exposure.

Written in Stone: a poetic exploration of our enduring relationship with rocks, and how they ignite creativity. (2025)
Thesis
Forrester, C. (2025). Written in Stone: a poetic exploration of our enduring relationship with rocks, and how they ignite creativity. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5179479

This PhD explores humankind’s long relationship with rock and the effects it can have on our creativity and affinity with the natural world. Using rock as a conduit for a sense of appreciation and belonging, could a pebble in the hand spark an inhere... Read More about Written in Stone: a poetic exploration of our enduring relationship with rocks, and how they ignite creativity..

Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men's History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions (2025)
Thesis
Commerford, M. (2025). Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men's History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5086279

Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men’s History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions is both an adapted memoir and an exegesis that charts a PhD journey of self-empowerment, and healing through the lens of a queer individual'... Read More about Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men's History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions.

Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff (2024)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J., & Westoby, C. (2024). Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff. Lapidus International Research and Innovation Community Journal, 4(1), 30-51

Research from the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge recognises that prison officers are productive role models for prisoners and that the pop-cultural stereotype of the officer beating the inmate into submission has diminished. Yet a report publi... Read More about Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff.

Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments (2024)
Journal Article
Eldridge, D., Fielding, L., & Dickenson, S. J. (online). Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments. Support for Learning, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12497

In a context where more than 40% of LGBTQIA+ individuals in the UK are estimated to avoid sports due to experiences of discrimination, with disengagement closely linked to negative experiences during physical education at school, the ability of speci... Read More about Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments.

Queen of The Mist (2024)
Book
Cauchi, C. (2024). Queen of The Mist. HarperCollins Publishers

US and Canadian Editions. There is also a exclusive edition for Indigo Books.

School teacher. Widow. Legend.
It’s 1901 and the mists of change are swirling. Queen Victoria’s reign is about to come to an end, and an obscure widow in Buffalo, New Y... Read More about Queen of The Mist.

The Woman Who Went over Niagara Falls in a Barrel (2024)
Book
Cauchi, C. (2024). The Woman Who Went over Niagara Falls in a Barrel. HarperCollins UK

From the publisher:
School teacher. Widow. Legend.

It’s 1901 and the mists of change are swirling. Queen Victoria’s reign is about to come to an end, and an obscure widow in Buffalo, New York, is about to attempt the impossible.

Meet the cour... Read More about The Woman Who Went over Niagara Falls in a Barrel.

Arx: City of Broken Minds (2024)
Book
Hurst, E. (2024). Arx: City of Broken Minds. Barbican Press

Publisher's promotional text:
Inhale the memory. Exhale the truth. Arx: City of Broken Minds is a standalone epic of grimdark fantasy.

In Arx, no-one remembers anything. Not the Flame Protests. Not the Sightless executioner. Not even themselves.... Read More about Arx: City of Broken Minds.

Understanding the Communicative Ecology and Impact of Social Media following a Suspected Suicide (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bell, J., & Westoby, C. (2023, September). Understanding the Communicative Ecology and Impact of Social Media following a Suspected Suicide. Presented at International Association for Suicide Prevention 32nd World Congress, Piran, Slovenia

Background: The proliferation of social media platforms in recent years has expanded and complicated the communicative ecology of suicide-related internet use. There is a wide gap in the literature when it comes to a deeper understanding of the issue... Read More about Understanding the Communicative Ecology and Impact of Social Media following a Suspected Suicide.

Words Behind Walls: Prison Staff Writing (2023)
Book
Metcalf, J., Nichols, H., Westoby, C., & Clement, J. (Eds.). (2023). Words Behind Walls: Prison Staff Writing. Butcher's Dog Publishing

This anthology of writings stemmed from a University of Hull project that offered bespoke creative writing workshops to staff at both HMP Hull and HMP Manchester. The team wanted to support employees in a role that government and academic research re... Read More about Words Behind Walls: Prison Staff Writing.